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From the WordPress Blog:

WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and search that covers posts and pages.

Not taking the time to post much these days (too busy), but I couldn’t miss this one, being in the middle of developing stuff for the platform (among other things). :)

See “BMX Corey Martinez Session Federal“.

Note: The whole video is great, but the amazing stuff starts about half-way into it (~2 min.).

I’ve been stopping myself from buying another BMX for years, thinking “bald dude + trick bike = not so cool”, but seeing stuff like this just makes me think “Hey, I’ve got kids, don’t I?”.

Gotta show them how to not get hurt, right? Right? Riiiight!

Worked for skateboarding and snowboarding, after all. :p

From “Mukurtu Wumpurrarni-kari Archive :: An Indigenous Archive Tool“:

The Mukurtu Wumpurrarni-kari Archive is a browser-based digital archive created by the Warumungu community in Tennant Creek, N.T. Australia in collaboration with researchers Kimberly Christen, Craig Dietrich, Chris Cooney, and Tim Dietrich.

Doesn’t that sound like a perfect site to be accessed from an XO?

But obvious references aside, what is so special about this effort beyond the niche community it revolves around?

As the Beeb duly reports, it’s all about the social approach to accessing the knowledge made available through the archives.

It asks every person who logs in for their name, age, sex and standing within their community.

This information then restricts what they can search for in the archive, offering a new take on DRM.

Or what I would have labeled as SRM: social rights management. Using socially defined standards and volunteered information to filter the data, rather than credentials provided by a central authority to restrict access to it.

Puts a whole new twist on Praized Media’s “Trust your tribes” motto!

Via Slashdot.

From “The “Work From Home” Generation - ReadWriteWeb“:

What are the pros and cons of working from home? In this post we take a close look, as well as discuss what lies ahead for this new, rapidly growing generation.

Always interesting to read an article that explores both sides of the telecommuting equation.

From “Second employee leaves job over sale of space contractor“:

For the second time in as many weeks, a satellite engineer has resigned from Canada’s leading space contractor over the company’s sale of its space division to an American weapons maker.

Ethics are a powerful force.